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ORIGINAL LANGUAGE FIRST
Pedagogical transliterationeini ... lo qashya: ha be-millei dideih, ha be-millei di-shemayya
WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT
The passage first challenges with אִינִי? and a statement of Rabbi Yitzḥak. The resolution לָא קַשְׁיָא does not mean ‘ignore the problem’; it asserts that the cases differ. The first distinction is personal matters versus matters of Heaven. The next proposal keeps both in matters of Heaven but distinguishes whether the wicked person’s hour is favorable.
SEE HOW IT WORKS
JBA-R04
Pedagogical reading guide
Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
איני challenge → cited statement → לא קשיא → הא case A / הא case B → ואיבעית אימא alternative resolution → new הא/הא distinction
EXAMPLES
Close translation of the resolutions — ‘It is not difficult: this concerns his own matters; that concerns matters of Heaven. And if you wish, say: both concern matters of Heaven, and it is not difficult: this concerns a wicked person whose hour is favorable; that concerns a wicked person whose hour is not favorable.’
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APPROVED STUDY LAYERS
Read לא קשיא as a claim that two sources govern different cases, then identify each distinguishing variable.
JBA discourse formulas: איני challenge; לא קשיא resolution; הא...הא case distinction; ואיבעית אימא alternative resolution. The embedded Rabbi Yitzḥak statement and verses are Hebrew.
State the variable in the first הא...הא resolution and the variable in the second. What does ואיבעית אימא signal?
First variable: personal matters versus matters of Heaven. Second: whether the wicked person currently enjoys favorable fortune. ואיבעית אימא introduces an alternative answer, not an additional premise required by the first.
Primary text: Wikisource Talmud Bavli, CC-BY-SA. The selected three-segment unit retains the challenge that gives the resolution its function.
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